Poet in the Wild

It's been great having our @surfingsofas with us this week. ❤️

Here he is writing poems in the museum garden.

Don't forget to download his album Objects and Concepts from Spotify or wherever you get your music from!

This looks great. Surfing Sofas has performed 5 WAYS @ the Recovery Academy and he's really powerful. Get yourself along if you can.

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Join us to celebrate the launch of 'Together We Thrive' - an anthology of poems and a spoken word EP created from a series of poetry workshops in partnership with support services based in Leeds.

Book tickets: twt-launch.eventbrite.com

Supported by: Arts Council England & LCH NHS Trust

Also, my dyslexia and consistent typos make me hate tweeting... But I'm sure most of you are used to deciphering the mistakes in my tweets by now :)

Making that announcement has put pterodactyls in my stomach haha

After months and months of hard work, we're about ready to unveil what we have created!

Come long to our launch party in Leeds on June 12th | 2pm - 4pm at St George's Conference Centre. You'll also be able to watch the launch on zoom!

Tickets: eventbrite.com/e/893373613527

The power of poetry Surfing Sofas Spoken Minds

Last week I facilitated my weekly Wednesday poetry workshop for Spoken Minds, and our mate Will had a prompt for the group from Ian McMillan!!

The poems created in this session were quite moving! #DoorsOfHope #TogetherWeThrive

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Today! Community Tuesday!

❤️ Gardening 11 - 3pm
❤️ Open Studio 11 - 1.30pm
❤️ Lunch 1.30pm
❤️ Peoples Recovery Project 3 - 5pm The People's Recovery Project
On our museum site in #FinsburyPark

It was so nice to get out of the pond yesterday and hang with these legends.
Surfing Sofas was outstanding 😭

What an amazing day yesterday.
Bravo to our Surfing Sofas and Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir for a spine tingling perfomance.
And huge thanks to Lyrix Organix and St James's Church, Piccadilly for having us. ❤️

IT’S HAPPENING NOW!!! If you’re in #London now, come along to #StJamesPiccadilly St James's Church, Piccadilly for #SoulAtSaintJames to hear the amazing @surfingsofas perform with Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir and a chat with Jess Turtle Jessica Turtle about the work of Museum of Homelessness #MuseumOfHomelessness

TODAYS THE DAY
We are so happy to be partnering with the amazing Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir and Lyrix Organix today on this special gig which will feature an in conversation with Jessica Turtle and a performance by our Poet in Residence Surfing Sofas
Come along its going to be 🔥🔥

Can't wait for this.
I have seen the rehearsal footage with Surfing Sofas and the choir and oh wow it's something special
If you are in London come along xx

A clip from last Sunday's rehearsal with Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir 🎵

Catch our performance today at:
St James Church, Piccadilly @ 2pm

Many thanks to Museum of Homelessness & Lyrix Organix 💜

Yes, that's the one! Such a relatable piece 🚫👀⏰

Having a read of Ian McMillan's & paul digby's 'Time & Space' on the train to London.

#dontlookattheclock

ON your bank holiday MUST DO list

Surfing Sofas x Soul Sanctuary gospel choir

St James Piccadilly
Sunday 5th May
Start time 2pm

We will see you there 🥰

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